Oh? Guess what I require old.reddit.com to do?
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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This is presumably because they've been boosting their anonymous agitator account with their profiles set to private, and there are tools out there that reveal said hidden comments like arctic-shift which I assume utilise old.reddit. They are trying so desperately to curate a rightwing majority narrative that simply isn't true.
What do you mean try? They are not desperate. They just are doing it. On every platform. The left is absolute cooked. There is no defense from the left against this. The left saw the writing on the wall and shot themselves in the foot over this decades ago. Now the right have the tools that the left used and because the left gave out to capitalism and profit seeking, the right was able to co-opt the platforms and use those same tools to accomplish a hostile takeover. Just wait until the kids today who experience the internet and the views spread on these platforms become adults. Maybe we can make some bean and moth memes until then.
This is short-term thinking. We've got the far-right in my country (Not the US) starting to flail at scrutiny, we've got Trump's attempting to rig the midterms hitting roadblock after roadblock after roadblock. We've got civil disobedience, sabotage, subtle dissent increasing in volume and frequency throughout the western world. Outside of the US the far-right is emboldened by the regime but its increasingly looking like trump’s got no clothes.
Russia, one of the main sponsors and recruiters of these fucks are enduring devastating losses on a daily basis, to their infrastructure as well as their citizenry they send in waves upon waves of futility, its only a matter of time until they fall.
The only reason things appear 'cooked' for now, is because of the massive sums of money from the Epstein-adjacent tech overlords desperately trying to escape scrutiny, trying to buy out and control the narrative but it just ain't happening.. Bubble's fit to burst.
Choose hope.
edited - Its happening RIGHT NOW. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/palantir-alex-karp-interview-openai-anthropic-b3007175.html
I regret every time I revisit Reddit. Them shutting down old.reddit will certainly keep me from ever going back. It'll be a blessing in disguise for me.
I was addicted to reddit for over 10 years when they shutdown the RIF app. At first I felt like an addict detoxing and it hurt. but now I can look back at those times and say good riddance to Reddit.
I still enjoy this format of social media, and therefore use Lemmy a lot. It's clear there's no algorithm or bots upvoteing trying to make me angry or keep me on the site. There's less bots here trying to steer the conversation or promote their product. I'm happy with Lemmy. Fuck reddit to death.
Honestly, Lemmy has been good for me in some ways because it isn't as popular and doesn't have the deep niche communities reddit has that I was super active in.
I get more accomplished now because I essentially "finish" my Lemmy browsing and move on, whereas reddit always had something else for me to dive into.
Yup.
'Boredom' is important. The various endless scroll platforms are not good, for a great number of us at least.
I'm the same with you. I was on reddit nearly since the beginning. It was my entire social life, well, mostly. As soon as they killed off TPA, I don't bother anymore. obligatory, fuck spez.
Enshitifcation everywhere!
No need Reddit, in the moment to verify my ID, delete Reddit.
Just got this email from reddit:
We’re writing to let you know that starting 24 June 2026, we are changing how users in the European Union (EU) access certain parts of the platform to comply with EU laws.
If we determine you may be under 18 years old, you will need to verify your age before you can view mature (NSFW) content or communities. Learn more about how we determine age and verification options here.
All teen accounts in the EU will also automatically be switched to the most protective, private experience. Depending on your age, here is how your settings will look:
Ages 13–15: Features like Chat, Followers and Profile discoverability will be locked to the most protective settings. These cannot be changed. Ages 16–17: These same features will default to the most protective settings automatically, but you have the option to change them in your Settings.
If you have questions, please visit Reddit Help. - Reddit
Would be funny if they mark my account as teen when some of my nude images have been on there for years^^
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Fuck you spez.
Evidently not enough people left Reddit due to their last enshittification measure, so the enshittification will continue.
If I've learned anything over the past decade, it's that people in general will put up with an astonishing level of enshittification
They don’t even notice in my experience.
They think people like us are losing it for even noticing.
Can confirm. Blew a fuse when Spotify started sneaking AI generated music in my playlists and my whole family said I was overreacting and that it didn't matter
Yep, they'll hit you with the:
🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
People on average will literally put up with anything. You can charge them $10/month for their email and you see 90% or so of all people just shrug and then pay it.
Most people seem to not even have any notion of how things can be better. They never even think to look up like "block ads". They just take whatever fuckery they get
Another reminder that the average IQ is 100.
I really like listening to Amy Poehler's podcast, and there is a running joke that whenever she pulls up YouTube on air, she has to sit through ads.
And guests will kind of rib her for it, but they do it because she hasn't paid for YouTube to get rid of ads. Always like, "omg you still haven't just paid for YouTube?! I can't believe you have ads!"
Like... Are most people simply unaware that ad blockers exist? I've never watched a YouTube ad, nor have I paid a dime to them for anything. I will simply not use YouTube before ever sitting through a single ad.
I just don't understand how people can be so strangely incurious as to not even wonder if there's a way to stop this bullshit.
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Enshittification will continue until morale improves
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Oh they dont like people using their website as a website? Guess this is an issue that will solve itself.
We really need a firefox addon to block reddit from google results automatically
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Gotta hand it to Reddit though.
Somehow they keep coming up with ways to piss off more people.
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old.reddit is the only way I use it. this goes away, I delete my account.
The support forums like r/stopdrinking and r/CPTSD have been lifesavers for me, but reddit just keeps finding new ways to be terrible. RIP Aaron Swartz
I spent months deleting my old reddit comments. And I'd have to type in my username on a search engine after about a month or two and find more of my old comments and delete those too.
I know the bots already scrapped my contributions. I wanted to say fuck off to to Reddit and take back my contributions.
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You can still visit - and scrape - the new Reddit without logging in, so the scraping is obviously just an excuse for what everyone saw coming from the start: the gradual complete shutdown of old Reddit.
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